At the Harvard Graduate School of Design. (Photo by Hargo.)
- Japanese paintings of toy octopuses.
- Today’s Big Surprise…Not: Museum power structure remains white even as audiences do not. Art Newspaper covers how some museums are reaching out to minority audiences. “Minorities” that, in many cases, are actually the majority.
- Symbolic Berlin Wall to be erected across L.A.’s Wilshire Boulevard in November.
- Is Eli Broad’s plan for a museum in Beverly Hills moribund?
- Ansel Adams Polaroids are headed to the auction block. (What a Lovely Recession.)
- ‘Cuz these days it’s all about creating temporary art communities that float: the Waterpod.
- A fascinating visual + words essay by Jon Rafman on the photographic nature of Google Street View on Art Fag City. Kick ass.
- (Fake) crack as art.
- An Xiao on cosplay at Art21.
- Vintage Mexican sci-fi. Love the ladies. (ackackack.)
- Awesome: Order a sculpted pet portrait of your dog. My favorite.
- Women and the clothes they wish to be buried in.
- Sustained decay.
- Last suppers.
- A Warhol round-up on Studio 360. All I gotta say is the song Style it Takes is pretty god awful.
- Ekosystem has a nice gathering of geometric graffiti.
- Bristol Museum paid Banksy £1 for his show.
- Triple Canopy reports on the architecture of Caracas’s slum superblocks.
- Like a building that’s been pixelated. (NotCot.)
- Your moment of Machu Picchu upside down.
While I firmly believe you are a Goddess of Taste, and faithfully read your opinions daily, and plan on a trip to Lima soon to eat my weight in Causa’s, you are wrong about Style it Takes.
The entire Songs for Drella Album is an underrated masterpiece, and it, along with ol pajama man’s Basquiat movie, are some of the purest insights into Warhol.
I admit, John Cale is a bit of an acquired taste- but he is NOT god awful.
Perhaps you would prefer his version of “Pablo Picasso”-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAyfd69wkrk
It rocks a bit more…
Didn’t mean to imply that Cale was god awful (I’ve linked to Pablo Picasso before), nor all of ‘Songs for Drella,’ which can be humorous and poignant. Just that ‘Style It Takes’ grates me… along with a coupla other songs on that album which feel just a bit too hagiographic for my taste … though i will admit that to say that it was god awful was a vast overstatement…
On an unrelated note, going to Lima to eat your weight in causas is a highly commendable goal.